V. I. Lenin

The  Dictatorship Of The 
      Proletariat[1]

Written:September-October 1919First Published:1925Source:Lenin’sCollected
      Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow,
      1965, Volume 30, pages 93-104Translated:George HannaTranscription/HTML Markup:Copyleft:V. I. Lenin Internet Archive
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For treatment in the pamphlet the question falls into 4 main sections:

(A) The dictatorship of the proletariat as new forms of the class struggle of the proletariat (in other words: its new stage and new tasks).

(B)	The dictatorship of the proletariat as the destruction of bourgeois democracy and the creation of proletarian democracy.

(C)	The dictatorship of the proletariat and the distinguishing features of imperialism (or the imperialist stage of capitalism).

(D) The dictatorship of the proletariat and Soviet power.

      Plan for the elaboration of these 4 sections:

I (A) The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
      as New Forms of the Class Struggle
      of the Proletariat

II(B) The Dictatorship of the Proletariatas the Destruction of Bourgeois Democracy and theCreation of Proletarian Democracy

III (C) The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
and the Distinguishing Features of Imperialism

IV (D) The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Soviet Power

[1]This article is apparently a draft of a pamphlet planned but not written by Lenin.

[2]Lenin refers to Karl Marx’s letter to Joseph Weydemeyer of March 5, 1852 (see Marx and Engels, Selected Correspondence, Moscow, 1955, p. 85).

[3]Lenin refers to Karl Marx’s letter to Ludwig Kugelmann of December 13, 1870 (see Marx and Engels, Selected Correspondence, Moscow, 1955, p. 307).

[4]Lenin refers to Engels’s letter to August Bebel of March 18-28 1875 (see Marx and Engels, Selected Correspondence, Moscow, 1955, p. 353).

[5]Lenin refers to Engels’s letter to August Bebel of March 18-28 1875 (see Marx and Engels, Selected Correspondence, Moscow, 1955, pp. 356-57).

[6]See Frederick Engels, Anti-Dühring, Moscow, 1954, Part I, Philosophy. Chapter X, pp. 134-49.

[7]See Frederick Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Moscow, Chapter IX, Barbarism and Civilisation, pp. 307-27.

[8]Lenin refers to statements by Marx and Engels in the period between 1852 and 1892 concerning the development of the upper stratum of the working class into bourgeois (references are given in Note 15).

[9]Lenin refers to Marx’s address to the Hague Congress of the First International in September 1872. Engels wrote about it in letters to Sorge of September 21 and October 5, 1872.

[10]The Constitution of the R.S.F.S.R. was adopted on July 10, 1918 by the Fifth All-Russia Congress of Soviets. Its Clause 23 reads as follows, "Prompted by the interests of the working class as a whole, the R.S.F.S.R. deprives of rights certain individuals and certain groups who use such rights to the detriment of the socialist revolution." This clause remained in force till the Eighth Extraordinary) Congress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R. which in 1036 adopted a new Constitution according to which all citizens were granted equal rights to elect and be elected to the Soviets.